Sound-producing device for toys and the like.



A. STEINER.

SOUND PRODUCING DEVICE FOR TOYS AND THt LIKE. APPUCAHON mu) MAR. n. 1915.

1,200,256. Patented 0m. 3,1916

ALBIN STEINER. OF SONNEBERG, GERMANY.

SOUND-'PRODUCING.DEVIQE FOR TOYS AND THE LIKE.

I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 3; 1916.

Application filed March 17, 1915. Serial No. 15,( )53. v

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Be it known that I. Amnx' STEINER, subject of the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. residing at Sonneherg. .xermany. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sound-Producing Devices for Toys and the likepot which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sound-producing devices for toys and the like and more especially to the sort of devices actuated by bellows. and its particular object is a sombination of bellows coacting in such a manner as to produce'sounds as well on being operated by hand as for some time after such operation has ceased.

With t'his'objeet in view the device according to my invention consists of two bel lows, one acting'as an air compressor and the other oneas a sound producer actuated by said air compressor.

In the drawings atlixed to this specification the preferred form ofia sound producing device according tomy invention is Shown. i

Fjgure -1 is a. vertical longitudinal section pressed within the bellows 7) to escape into an intermediate chamb r surrounded by walls l and serving to conduct the air to a,

hole :1 in the bottom-check 111- of the sound producing bellows (1 The.-t-op-clu ck 0 of said sound producing bellows is provided with a hole ,a leading to a small reed illSlIl'lI-- ment or pipe '1' ending in a tube (1. t is a compression spring tending to drive the top and bottom cheeks of the bellows 7) apart. 8 is a tension spring tending to draw the top and bottom cheeks ol' the bellows 0- toward each other.

lly exerting pressure upon the topcheek of the bellows I the spring 6 is compressed. and upon the pressure being removed this ring will drive the top and bottom cheeks asunder, thereby causing air to enter into the bellows b by the inlet (2 l pon arenewed pressure being exerted upon the topcheek of tlwbellows b. the air wiltescape through the outlet izinto the intermediate chamber Z and from there through the hole n into the-bellows a, causing the spring 8 to be extended a little. By alternately compressing the bellows Z2 and allowing the spring t to drive. its cheeks asunder the bele lows a can be completely raised against the action of spring 8. During this time. ho wever. the weight of the top chee-k '0 of .said

bellows n as well as the tension of the springa will exert a constant pressure upon the air inelosed in said bellows and part of the air will constantly be expelled through the hole 7* and in passing through the instrument '1 will produce a more or less continuous sound. The sound production willeontinue automatically after the pressure upon the bellows I; has been discontinued and the bellows n have been completely filled with air,

tlie weight of thevtop-cheek 0 together with the tension of the spring 8 and of the leather or fabric side walls of the bellows causing instance growing bigger at each pressure ofthe hand upon the top cheek .5 of the bellows I) and squealing or screan'iing through out the time the body is being inflated as well as a tter the pressure is discontinueiihand while the body is being contracted again.

I claim? I. sound producing device for toys comprising a bellows. a normally contracted (X- pansible body having an inlet connected with an outlet from the bellows. a wind instriunent supported by said bodyaud connected with an outlet therefrom. and means for preventing the passage of air from the body to the bellows. whereby the instrument will be caused to sound while the body is being inllalcd and also while the. bellows is ino u-rative and the body is contracting to its normal condition.

l. sound producing device for toys con:- prising an cxpansible body. a \vind instrulncnt supported by the body andarianged to be actuated by air-escaping from an outlet therein, means acting to maintain the body condition, means for supply- Elie bdfly connected with an outlet therefoiifimder pressure to the body, .anii ,means for preventing the return of air from th ibody the inflating means, for the pur- 8. .Asound producing device for toys comprising a bellows, an expansible body hrv ng an inletconnected with an outlet 11 thel bgllows, a wind instrument attached to In a sound producing device for toys and the like, in combination, a bBllOWSyalI inlet and outlet valves on said bellows, another bellows provided with an air inlet at one check and an air outlet and a wind instrument at the other cheek, an air-tight connection between the outlet valve of the first bellows and the air inlet of the second bellows a sorinmarlepted to keep the first bellows distendeand a spring adapted to COfitIfiCt the second bellows.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 

